2 1 year-old graduated from the Department of Mathematics and Physics of Fuzhou Union Medical College, and obtained a doctorate from Cambridge University at the age of 29.
194 1 returned to China, and successively served as a researcher at the Institute of Astronomy of Academia Sinica, professor yenching university, professor Peking University and professor of Nanjing University. From 65438 to 0954, he served as the deputy director of the Department of Mathematical Astronomy of Nanjing University, and from 65438 to 0962, he served as the head of the astronomy department of the school. In his later years, he devoted himself to the study of the evolution of the solar system. On the basis of comprehensive comments on various theories of the evolution of the solar system, he put forward a new nebula theory of the origin of the solar system.
1979, the monograph Evolution of the Solar System (Volume I) was published. In the early 1960s, a new concept of cosmology was put forward, and the differences and relations among three different levels of micro, macro and cosmology were analyzed, which initiated the research on the characteristics and laws of cosmology in the field of China's astronomical philosophy. In addition, he has published many papers on stellar spectrum analysis, stellar physics, stellar astronomy and galaxy structure. A large number of astronomical talents have been trained for the country, and many of them have become the backbone of various astronomical stations in China.